Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:00:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Bart Pustjens <skin@takeover.lion-access.net> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: reboot Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0101231557100.7276-100000@takeover.lion-access.net> In-Reply-To: <20010123174357.A38604@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Bart Pustjens <skin@takeover.lion-access.net> [20010123 17:29]: writing on the subject 'reboot' > Bart> One of my FreeBSD machines is highly unstable and > Bart> is co-located at an ISP. I don't have the time this > Bart> week to fix the problems or upgrade the hardware so > Bart> I want to add a cronjob with 'reboot' every 24 hours. > Bart> Is it allowed (for the root user) to add /sbin/reboot > Bart> as a cronjob ? Or are their other alternatives ? > > What is the need for a reboot. Sometimes the machine goes completely dead (not pingable) and sometimes I can ping the machine and connect to a daemon but nothing happens after that. > maybe you can just give a rogue process a HUP every 24 hours.... Could be an option if I had one specific problem... > But i still "SUSPECT" /sbin/shutdown -r can still be done via cron. Gonna use/try that till the end of the week and fix the problem for good (kick out the NIC, upgrade to 4.2 and add some RAM). With regards, Bart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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